It’s not every day that ET gets the chance to celebrate E.T. – the cugly (cute-ugly) alien hero of Steven Spielberg‘s 1982 film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. But 40 years after the world first met the entity lost on Earth without Google Maps to help him go home, the original animatronic model – mechanical puppet – is being put under the hammer in ‘The Icons and Idols: Hollywood‘ auction next month. Created by Carlo Rambaldi, the Italian special effects master and three Oscars-winner (the 1976 version of King Kong, the 1979 science fiction horror Alien, and E.T.), the original models (there were more than one used in the movie) had disintegrated inside storage boxes. Then, like a less friendly creature found in a coffin, the horribly damaged E.T. models were discovered in 2018. In October 2021, the Carlo Rambaldi Foundation decided to painstakingly resurrect E.T.’s remains.
Headed by a 10-member team in Milan, E.T. was put together piece by piece, wire by wire. It is one such piece that is estimated to be worth $80,000-100,000 that will be auctioned in Beverly Hills. As appearances go, the unnamed E.T. can be considered by millennials to be a cousin of Grogu a.k.a. ‘Baby Yoda’ of the Disney+ series, The Mandalorian. Except, of course, E.T., like ET, will be glowing once it is picked up by a terrestrial with extra money to spare.
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